COMFORT AND JOY (1984) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Bill Forsyth
Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Alex Norton
A Glasgow disc jockey, despondent after being dumped by his girlfriend just before Christmas, stumbles into an unlikely turf war between rival mobile ice-cream franchises. An amusing, low-key comedy from Scotland's Bill Forsyth, the guy who made "Local Hero". If you're in the market for a holiday movie that's mostly good-natured, slightly daft and not too killingly sentimental, check it out.
